I don’t think that this self-portrait does me justice, but it will suffice. (Click image for link)
Hello, class! My name is John Locke. I will begin with an introduction of myself:
I was born August 29th, 1632 in Somerset, England. My mother and father, Agnes and John Locke, were loving parents. Immediately after I was born, I was baptized and our family moved to a more rural area of the country called Pensford. My parents sent me to a Tudor home in Belluton, England. After I became of age, I was sent off to Westminster school in London. After my studies at Westminster were completed, I was accepted as a student to Christ Church in Oxford. This is when I became more interested in philosophy and politics, because I was annoyed and amused with my undergraduate studies in the medical field.
I graduated with a master's degree in philosophy and a bachelor's degree in medicine from Oxford. By the way, I also had the privilege to speak and work with Robert Boyle, Richard Lower, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis during my time in Oxford, all of which are great thinkers and scientists. Towards the end of my time at Oxford, I met Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury in Oxford.
Shaftesbury was very impressed with me at Oxford, so I moved into his home after my time at Oxford. Coincidentally, Shaftesbury is the one who influenced my work as a philosopher and as a writer. Shaftesbury was the founder of the Whig Party, which is part of the reason I became involved in politics as well.
Many of you know me for only one of my works, which is The Second Treatise of Government. In this work, I state that a government that fails to protect rights or uses its power to violate rights may be justifiably overthrown by the citizens and replaced by a new, legitimate government. This, and many other thoughts and beliefs I put into my works, are what helped the people of future generations create American Freedom. My works helped create you.
Hello, class! My name is John Locke. I will begin with an introduction of myself:
I was born August 29th, 1632 in Somerset, England. My mother and father, Agnes and John Locke, were loving parents. Immediately after I was born, I was baptized and our family moved to a more rural area of the country called Pensford. My parents sent me to a Tudor home in Belluton, England. After I became of age, I was sent off to Westminster school in London. After my studies at Westminster were completed, I was accepted as a student to Christ Church in Oxford. This is when I became more interested in philosophy and politics, because I was annoyed and amused with my undergraduate studies in the medical field.
I graduated with a master's degree in philosophy and a bachelor's degree in medicine from Oxford. By the way, I also had the privilege to speak and work with Robert Boyle, Richard Lower, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis during my time in Oxford, all of which are great thinkers and scientists. Towards the end of my time at Oxford, I met Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury in Oxford.
Shaftesbury was very impressed with me at Oxford, so I moved into his home after my time at Oxford. Coincidentally, Shaftesbury is the one who influenced my work as a philosopher and as a writer. Shaftesbury was the founder of the Whig Party, which is part of the reason I became involved in politics as well.
Many of you know me for only one of my works, which is The Second Treatise of Government. In this work, I state that a government that fails to protect rights or uses its power to violate rights may be justifiably overthrown by the citizens and replaced by a new, legitimate government. This, and many other thoughts and beliefs I put into my works, are what helped the people of future generations create American Freedom. My works helped create you.
I died on October 28th, 1704.
SOURCES:
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/john-locke-134.php
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?Itemid=273&id=1181&option=com_content&task=view
http://www.westerncultureglobal.org/locke.html